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includes: The 400 Blows, Antoine And Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed And Board, and Love On The Run
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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel captures François Truffaut's alter ego (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) over the span of five films and 20 years. Truffaut's first feature was The 400 Blows (1959), in which Doinel is a boy who turns to petty crime in the face of neglect at home and hard times at a reform school.
The second film to feature Doinel, "Antoine and Collette" (1962) was originally made for the omnibus film Love at Twenty but has outlived its companion shorts. As romantic and gently ironic as The 400 Blows is harsh and haunting, this modest 20-minute lark finds a teenage Antoine pursuing the lovely, lithe 20-year-old Colette (Marie-France Pisier) like a lovesick puppy.
Stolen Kisses (1968) opens with the now-grown Doinel sprung from military prison with a dishonorable discharge.
Bed and Board (1970) finds Doinel married to Christine and still plugging away at odd jobs. He learns of his impending fatherhood, but then throws a monkey wrench into his new happiness when he becomes obsessed with a beautiful young Japanese woman (Hiroku Berghauer).
Love on the Run (1979) was Truffaut's last film in the series.
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The 400 Blows
DVD - director Francois Truffaut, Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy,
Reviewer: nick minorsky
This film is a masterpiece, in that the images last a lifetime. The story develops at a steady pace about a boy growing up in Paris, and tracks the stages downward as he falls into trouble along the way. The black and white scenes in the streets slowly cast a pall as we watch this basically good little fellow being buffeted about by the less than admirable adults in his world.
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